Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed (View Workflow)
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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10.2.6
Description
MDEV-10134 introduced support for creating a table whose default is an expression.
SHOW [FULL] COLUMNS/FIELDS and INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS show these default expressions, but because these just look like strings, it seems to be impossible for a client program to tell if the default is an expression or a literal string.
For example:
MariaDB [test]> create table testtbl (cts varchar(255) default current_timestamp, sts varchar(255) default 'current_timestamp()'); show columns from testtbl; select * from information_schema.columns where table_name='testtbl';
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Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.13 sec)
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+-------+--------------+------+-----+---------------------+-------+
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| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
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+-------+--------------+------+-----+---------------------+-------+
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| cts | varchar(255) | YES | | current_timestamp() | |
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| sts | varchar(255) | YES | | current_timestamp() | |
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+-------+--------------+------+-----+---------------------+-------+
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2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
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+---------------+--------------+------------+-------------+------------------+---------------------+-------------+-----------+--------------------------+------------------------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+-------------------+--------------+------------+-------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------------+-----------------------+
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| TABLE_CATALOG | TABLE_SCHEMA | TABLE_NAME | COLUMN_NAME | ORDINAL_POSITION | COLUMN_DEFAULT | IS_NULLABLE | DATA_TYPE | CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH | CHARACTER_OCTET_LENGTH | NUMERIC_PRECISION | NUMERIC_SCALE | DATETIME_PRECISION | CHARACTER_SET_NAME | COLLATION_NAME | COLUMN_TYPE | COLUMN_KEY | EXTRA | PRIVILEGES | COLUMN_COMMENT | IS_GENERATED | GENERATION_EXPRESSION |
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+---------------+--------------+------------+-------------+------------------+---------------------+-------------+-----------+--------------------------+------------------------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+-------------------+--------------+------------+-------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------------+-----------------------+
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| def | test | testtbl | cts | 1 | current_timestamp() | YES | varchar | 255 | 255 | NULL | NULL | NULL | latin1 | latin1_swedish_ci | varchar(255) | | | select,insert,update,references | | NEVER | NULL |
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| def | test | testtbl | sts | 2 | current_timestamp() | YES | varchar | 255 | 255 | NULL | NULL | NULL | latin1 | latin1_swedish_ci | varchar(255) | | | select,insert,update,references | | NEVER | NULL |
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+---------------+--------------+------------+-------------+------------------+---------------------+-------------+-----------+--------------------------+------------------------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------+--------------------+-------------------+--------------+------------+-------+---------------------------------+----------------+--------------+-----------------------+
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2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
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This makes it hard to dump and restore the schema properly in database utilities (eg. my Kitchen Sync).
Note that the server does know (SHOW CREATE TABLE has quotes for the sts DEFAULT but not for the cts DEFAULT), but frameworks would have to parse this instead of using the SHOW statements or INFORMATION_SCHEMA views provided for giving the other table/column metadata.
Attachments
Issue Links
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MDEV-13750 Document recent changes to information_schema.COLUMNS table
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Activity
Is it possible to add an override setting that will return the same values like before 10.2?
No, but you can use SHOW FIELDS that returns the same values as before (and the same values that INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS used to return).
I'm asking because we use dbForge for MySql to do all our database administration/development and currently its broken because if this and we cannot do schema comparisons between different servers.
They are working on a new version that will have support for 10.2 but it may take them months, and we can't wait that long before we must update our clients.
Right. It looks like we've misunderstood the standard when INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS was originally implemented. If yes, this is certainly a bug that should be fixed.